Submitted to: BOP Challenge 2024

Training data: We do not train models on 6D pose estimation data. We use two frozen models pre-trained on web-scale 2D images and 3D point clouds, respectively.

Onboarding data: We render 162 templates for each object. We compute visual features from the rendered images, we back-project them into 3D and aggregate them. We compute geometric features directly from the 3D models and estimate geometric symmetries using the Chamfer distance.

Used 3D models: CAD models for T-LESS, default models for the other datasets.

Notes: We do not use task-specific training. We leverage two pre-trained geometric and vision foundation models, i.e. GeDi [A] and DINOv2 [B] to generate 3D discriminative point-level descriptors. We estimate objects' 6D pose via 3D registration based on RANSAC followed by ICP refinement. Lastly, we use SAR to solve ambiguous cases which may occur due to geometric symmetries. SAR is a novel symmetry-aware refinement based on rendering and visual features matching.

We use segmentation masks provided by SAM6D [C].

[A] Poiesi et al.: Learning general and distinctive 3D local deep descriptors for point cloud registration, IEEE PAMI 2023
[B] Oquab et al.: DINOv2: Learning robust visual features without supervision, arXiv 2023
[C] Lin et al.: SAM-6D: Segment Anything Model Meets Zero-Shot 6D Object Pose Estimation, CVPR 2024

Authors: Andrea Caraffa, Davide Boscaini, Amir Hamza and Fabio Poiesi